Palace Project Part 4: Making Progress in the Office

I started working on the office. There's a great blog I've been reading called abowlfuloflemons that is really helpful and inspiring in getting my house clean and organized. I used Toni's tips to start getting rid of the mess in my office by going through my papers. As a reminder, it started like this:

 But once I finished, it looked like this:

As my mother remarked with joy, "You can see the floor!" I know, I know. This is very exciting.

Then I got the bright idea that I would move my furniture. The desk I have is not terribly functional at the moment because the desktop space is too small. The hutch takes up a lot of room and when I'm working, I need to spread out - I frequently use my computer + a book, notebook or binder at the same time, and I struggle with space if I can't put them all on the desk at once. So I decided to buy a new desk with more space. That means moving out the old desk and bookshelf (wrong color) and bringing in new stuff. So now I've gone from this:

To this:

Sigh. I was so excited about being able to see the floor again...but you know how it works. The room often (if not always) gets messier before it gets cleaner, and sometimes just vacillates back and forth between the two. In other news, I'm excited to buy this to replace the bookshelf.

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I'm also getting some pink drawers to put in it. 

This room is going to be so pretty when it's done!